I will not ask my students to do what I have not done myself; write and submit as often as you can. We will all be the stronger for it.
Carrie Specht is a film industry professional with more than twenty-five years of experience working behind the scenes in the film industry. Although, she has worked on set in nearly every technical position, from Grip to Camera Assistant, from Sound Mixer to Best Boy Electrician (it’s a title, not a gender), Professor Specht has spent most of her career as an Assistant Director for feature films and television shows. She completed the Directors Guild of America Trainee Program after spending a great deal of time in the production office as an Assistant Coordinator, Coordinator and Production Manager for commercials, music videos, reality TV and television dramas.
Now a Professor of Film and Television, Ms. Specht began her professional career in New York while still a graduate student pursuing her MFA in Film Producing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts after she earned her BA in Screenwriting from San Francisco State University. At film school she produced the first of more than forty films and short films, many of which have received awards including a Gold Student Academy Award, an African American Student Filmmaker Award, and the Best Drama of the New York Short Film Festival. The short films she has directed herself include Drop in Any Mailbox, and Pearblossom Hwy, which was hailed as Best Comedy Short at the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival, and garnered her a top ten finalist slot for the Disney/ABC, DGA Directing Fellowship Program.
Professor Specht is currently working on pre-production on her next film, One Small Stand, about Japanese Internment and the role La Sierra University played in the release of their Asian students. She’s also in the midst of writing a book to benefit the Motion Picture Film and Television Fund, which includes interviews with many industry notables such as Ryan Gosling, Eva Marie Saint and Clint Eastwood. An avid film geek, Professor Specht edits ClassicFilmFan.com, a website about classic cinema and more. She also presents peer reviewed papers about cinema (classic and otherwise) at conferences around the world.
Professor Specht includes among her yearly rotation of classes Acting for Directors, Basic Production Techniques, Cinematography, Directing, History of Moving Pictures, Film Production, Lighting, and a Learning Service class called Producing the PSA.
  • Writer (2 Credits)
    One Small Stand
    The Familiar
    Short Script, Television Script
  • Producer (1 Credit)
    One Small Stand
  • Director (1 Credit)
    One Small Stand
I will not ask my students to do what I have not done myself; write and submit as often as you can. We will all be the stronger for it.
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